Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath

Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-05-17

Israeli anti-spam startup Blue Security decided on Tuesday to shutter its aggressive anti-spam service, citing threats of further--and more malicious--attacks on its service and users.

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Both comments above are from spammers 2006-05-19
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Re: Blue Security folds under spammer's wrath 2006-06-09
Anonymous

I think you misread the article. Blue went after the sponsors, not the spammer. And if sending unsubscribe requests, automated, is DDoS, what's spamming people? Automated sending to a list.

It's the same thing. The sponsors get inundated with unsubscribe requests and told by hundreds of thousands of people that they don't want their crap any more.

I don't see how this is a DDoS. If you don't want people to unsubscribe, don't provide an unsubscribe link.

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This is the saddest thing that could happen 2006-05-19
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